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French politician and diplomat Charles de Talleyrand once said: "Language is given to man in order to hide his thoughts." It ...
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I didn’t grow up in the 1920’s, but sometimes, I feel like I’m living through them. While many people think of that decade as ...
The magnification of this issue by the Liberals and their Ruritanian charade of presenting a Churchillian Mark Carney shaking ...
The museums you should visit in the UK, from contemporary art galleries to local history exhibitions - There are around 1,800 ...
What do you do when everything in your life is falling apart? Newell decided to move to South Korea, immersing herself in its ...
Even after a thousand years, Latin still remained the universal language in Europe ... the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon (Old English) translations. After the Norman conquest ...
The plane into Sydney was full of migrating Lebanese, and a lot of them couldn’t speak, read or write English. Once the cabin ...
As almost everyone knows, sequoia is the name given to a giant tree typical of California’s Sierra Nevada that can exceed one ...
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Islanders packed the courthouse lawn to say ‘Hands Off’
Islanders were fired up April 5 at the Hands Off protest. Well over 500, some estimates as high as 800, gathered at the ...
On the subject of scholarly advances, one of the many innovative aspects of Stewart’s grand narrative is his focus on James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848), an Anglo-Welsh ethnologist ... to unify ...
Since Angle and Saxon tribes brought their West Germanic dialect to Briton more than 1,500 years ago, and Old English was born, English has been a flexible, dynamic language — ...